In-Game Advertising Policy Changes for Group Finder

Blizzard has announced policy changes to advertisements made in the in-game Group Finder. Advertisements for in-game services like carriers are boosts will not be permitted, including those being offered in exchange for gold.\r\rVills has written a guide on Wowhead as to content you can use the premade Group Finder for, including dungeons, raids, questing, and battlegrounds.\r\r\rAs part of our ongoing efforts to crack down on in-game advertising, we\u2019ll be implementing some policy changes with how we handle moderation for advertisements made through the in-game Group Finder, and wanted to give you a heads up before these policies are put into place.\r\rBeginning Monday, July 2nd, we will no longer allow any advertisements in the Group Finder for in-game services such as carries or boosts, including those being offered in exchange for in-game gold. The Group Finder is intended for -- as the name suggests -- finding groups, and these advertisements make it difficult to find active groups that are currently being formed. Additionally, these are often used as a cover for real-money sales, particularly given that in-game gold cannot be transferred cross-realm.\r\rNote that this does not change our policy on selling things such as raid carries for in-game gold. Those are still allowed, but should be advertised through realm-specific methods such as trade chat.\r\rWe\u2019ll be adding an \u201cadvertisement\u201d option to the Group Finder\u2019s right-click reporting function with Patch 8.0, but in the meantime, they can be reported using the \u201cspam\u201d option. Thank you for your understanding, and for helping us keep the Group Finder clear of unwanted advertisements.

Commento di Kaiteir

Commento di Nexomnix

Awesome thank you! Especially useful not having those boosts advertised when trying to do RBGs or Rated Arena.

Commento di Oswaldovzki

on 2018-07-02T13:35:21-05:00

THANKS! I will love that change! It is so frustrating to look for a group and all you can find is advertisement

Commento di TheBestHunter

on 2018-07-02T13:37:11-05:00

This is a welcome change. I was personally getting quite tired of seeing the Group Finder saturated with boost ads, and I suspect a big part of the community shares my view.

Commento di zentorix

on 2018-07-02T13:38:11-05:00

Just add an advertising tab to LFG, problem solved.

Commento di fueTV

on 2018-07-02T13:39:24-05:00

Awesome!

Commento di Kendrubbin

on 2018-07-02T13:40:15-05:00

This is nice and all but can we get a better LFG system too? Can't even search individual keystone levels reliably.

Commento di Kekt0nic

on 2018-07-02T13:42:44-05:00

Additionally, these are often used as a cover for real-money sales, particularly given that in-game gold cannot be transferred cross-realm.\r\rlol yeah okay Blizz. It's not like a ton of M+ groups take gold on any server and their prices just happen to be what the WoW Token price is at the time. Surely it's just coincidence but hey it wouldn't be Blizzard if they weren't making a change that made sense yet using the worst attempt at logic to back it up would it?

Commento di darksoul9669

on 2018-07-02T13:42:49-05:00

Why wouldn't they just put in a realm specific tab for advertisements then? LFG would benefit even more because it would mean that guild advertisements would get funneled into there as well. All this is really going to do is increase the amount of people or bots spamming macros for ads in trade chat now on higher populated realms.

Commento di RaefWolfe

on 2018-07-02T13:43:14-05:00

I absolutely do not understand why gold-boosting would be ever an issue. Alot of people have big amount of gold and would gladly trade it for some end-game content unavaiable to them due to either skill or time management. People on semi-dead realms will never be able to get through some content cause of this.\r\rAnd to add, yes, you can "trade gold" cross realm. Can just make alt-toon on other realm and get gold there.\r\rThey're not banning gold sales. They're banning gold sale advertisements in group finder. Look to trade chat or look up groups online if that's what you want. But group finder is for groups, not for sales.

Commento di Starkonium

on 2018-07-02T13:44:17-05:00

We can find Mythic+ and Antorus pugs in peace finally? Holy cow, what a dream come true. It was getting really tiresome having to dig through the hundreds of carry ads to find something that's actually up for you to run.

Commento di Kekt0nic

on 2018-07-02T13:44:35-05:00

I absolutely do not understand why gold-boosting would be ever an issue. Alot of people have big amount of gold and would gladly trade it for some end-game content unavaiable to them due to either skill or time management. People on semi-dead realms will never be able to get through some content cause of this.\r\rAnd to add, yes, you can "trade gold" cross realm. Can just make alt-toon on other realm and get gold there.\r\rThey're not banning gold sales. They're banning gold sale advertisements in group finder. Look to trade chat or look up groups online if that's what you want. But group finder is for groups, not for sales.\r\rAnd Trade chat isn't for spamming political crap and guild recruitment but they don't see to care too much about cleaning that up do they?

Commento di Dedreen

on 2018-07-02T13:44:45-05:00

So glad to see this :)

Commento di Jetfyre

on 2018-07-02T13:45:40-05:00

Thank god! Now if only they'd stop spammers from spamming advertisements in Trade. Seeing someone spamming their raid run for gold 8 times in 10 minutes is ridiculous.

Commento di gamer74123

on 2018-07-02T13:45:49-05:00

YASSS! FINALLY!

Commento di armpitpleasures

on 2018-07-02T13:46:12-05:00

Note that this does not change our policy on selling things such as raid carries for in-game gold. Those are still allowed

Yeah until you get scammed, then blizzard washes their hands of the whole thing, why allow something if you won't enforce any type of rules regarding such transactions.